Discourse and the social life of meaning
By: edited by Phyllis Pease Chock and June R. Wyman.
Contributors: Chock, Phyllis Pease, 1941-; Wyman, June R.
Series: Anthropological Society of Washington series
Publisher: Smithsonian Institution Press
Published: 1986
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 232
Subjects: Ethnology -- Methodology -- Congresses.; Ethnophilosophy -- Congresses.; Discourse analysis -- Congresses.; Culture -- Congresses.
Notes: Includes bibliographies.
Table of contents: title: Post-modern anthropology / Stephen A. Tyler; title: The reconstruction of ethnography / Paul Stoller; title: Of definitions and boundaries / Michael Herzfeld; title: A biology of meaning and conduct / Constance Perin; title: Barchester Towers in Appalachia / James L. Peacock; title: Iranian Jewish women's magical narratives / Judith L. Goldstein; title: Popular mythologies and subtle theologies / Jon W. Anderson; title: The outsider wife and the divided self / Phyllis Pease Chock; title: Ideology and everyday life in Sami (Lapp) history / Sharon Stephens.